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J. GARMODY. SWING.

Patented May 28. 1889.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,914, dated May 28, 1889. Application filed August 9, 1888. Serial No. 282,350. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN CARMODY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Osborn, in the county of Greene and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention is designed as an improvement upon the swing on which Letters Patent were issued to me October 25, 1887, No. 372,117 and the invention relates to a portable swing having a frame and a chair of novel construction, both of which may be folded in small compass for shipment or storage and having a novel mode of connecting the lower ends of the suspension or seat ropes to the flexible or jointed chair to admit of the latter being inclined to various angles to suit the comfort of the user, and to allow him to easily actuate the swing by changing the position of the body as the latter sways to and fro.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and on which like reference-letters indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved swing entire; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation thereof on the line x a; of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a sectional elevation of the chair and frame folded for storage or transportation.

The frame of the swing consists of four standards arranged in pairs and designated A and A. The standards A are the inside members of the frame and the standards A the outside members, and the latter extend somewhat above the form er. This main frame supports a supplemental frame composed of two bars, B, pivotally connected with the upper ends of the standards A, in a manner presently to a pear, and is further composed of bars B piv ted to the bars B and pivotally connected by screws a at their lower ends to horizontal braces B ,pivotally connected with the respective sets of standards, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The pivot-pins which connect the braces B with the standards A are detachable to admit of folding the frame, as will hereinafter appear. The insides of the bars 13 are recessed or notched, as seen in Fig. 1, to clear the ends of the tenons which pass through the standards A and A when folding.

The letter O designates a cr0ss-piece constructed with tenons c, which form the pivotal connection between the opposite sets of standards. To the cross-piece O are attached the chair-ropes by means of hooks F, suspended from staples f, which are fastened to said cross-piece. A second cross-piece, O, is also constructed with tenons and forms a pivotal connection between the upper ends of the standards A and the bars B. Rods 0 connect the cross-pieces C and C, so as to add to the former substantially the strength of the latter. A third cross-piece, O is also fashioned with tenons to form the pivotal connection between the bars B and B of the supplemental frame.

It will be understood from inspecting Fig. 1 that the cross-pieces O, C, and O besides forming the pivotal connection above alluded to, also constitute the means by which the respective sets of standards of the main frame and the respective pieces of the supplemental frame are connected together.

The letter D designates the seat of the chair, near the forward end of which and at either side are pivoted the lower side bars, D, carrying a foot-rest, d, while near the rear end of said seat, and also at either side, are pivoted the upper side bars, D The forward end of the seat, where the bars D are pivoted, is made wider than the rear end, where the bars D are pivoted, so as to throw these sets of bars out of line sufficiently to accommodate the arms D which are pivoted on the outside of the bars D and on the inside of the bars D, so that all can be folded into a straight line, as seen in Fig. 3. The chair may be made to assume different positions, as suggested by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The suspension-ropes E, already referred to, are respectively secured to the seat D at either side and near the forward ends, and thence passed up through the slots in the arms D and between anti-friction rollers d and (P, as also seen in Fig. 2. Sheaves H and H are suspended from the cross-pieces O and O and carry the operating-rope G, which is connected at one end to the rear upper portion of the chair and hangs at the other end within the reach of the operator, who maintains the momentum of the chair by drawing this rope at or near the respective limits of vibration.

In Fig. 3 the chair and frame are represented as folded in a small compass. To do this,the connection between the; braces D and the standards A is broken by the withdrawal of the pin or other device whichforms the connection,when said braces at theirrear ends may be moved upward toward the standards A, carrying with them the supplemental frame, which finally assumes the elongated position seen in Fig. 3, as will be understood by observing 0 The standards A, being on the inside of the standards A, are simply moved over the latter, and then the chair is compressed to bring the bars D D and the arms D in a straight line, as also seen in Fig. 3. It will be noted that to admit of this folding only two connect-ions were brokennamely,

those between the respective standards A and the braces B. It will also be noticed from Fig.

upon each side of the frame, braces B, detachably connected to one of said standards, supplemental frame-pieces B and B pivoted to the standards A, to eachother, and the la ter to the braces B, the pieces B being on the outside of B and B, and B on the outside of A, and cross-pieces O, O, and 0 forming the pivotal connection, as described, a seat, D, upper and lower side pieces, D and D ,in different vertical planes and pivoted to the seat, arms D pivoted on the outside of D and on the inside of D, and a single rope at either side connecting one of the cross-pieces with the seat, substantially as shown and described.

-2. In a swing, the combination, with a chairseat, D, of the upper and lower side bars pivoted thereto in diiferent vertical planes, the arms pivoted to the outside upper bars and to the inside lower bars and provided with slots, sheaves mounted in said slots, and suspending-ropes connected to the chair and passing through the slots and between the sheaves, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

JOHN CARMODY. 

